Friday, 24 October 2003
The Post, Hasten The Homecoming
[This review appeared in Popshot.]
The Post have a way with the space of their music which has been sorely lacking since the new wave days of the early 1980s. Maybe it’s the Bauhaus cum Joy Division moans coming from singer, Oliver Boch that bring the 80s to mind, but The Post offer a roomy recording that is most un-contemporary. The bass, drums and guitar find separate frequencies to inhabit and allow the keyboards and extra percussion to settle in different places. Bass lines will take off from drum beats and vice versa. You’ll be following one and find yourself hypnotized by the other.
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